Manufactured in 1898. The top barrel flat is marked with the two-line address ahead of the rear sight and "45-90 W.C.F." at the breech. The upper tang is marked "--MODEL 1886--" The 1884 and 1885 patent dates are marked on the lower tang directly behind the trigger, and the serial number is at the end. It has a dovetailed German silver blade front sight and adjustable buckhorn rear sight, blue finish with casehardened hammer, trigger, lever and buttplate, full length magazine, and mounted with a smooth walnut forearm with steel forend cap and straight grip stock with a crescent buttplate. The accompanying factory letter verifies the takedown rifle configuration, caliber, octagon barrel, plain trigger, that the serial number was applied for on May 19, 1898, that it was received in the warehouse on July 23, 1898, and shipped to order number 39097 on September 22, 1899.